Freedom Index
The News Roundup
View More News“There has never been a central registry or clearing house for this market,” ATH argued in a recent research report. That fragmentation, the firm said, creates an opportunity for blockchain-based ownership and settlement infrastructure.The company is aiming to do so by placing physical cards, primarily ‘PSA-10s’ (cards receiving the highest grade awarded by Professional Sports Authenticator), in a secure, professionally managed vault. Each physical card would then be matched one-to-one with a digital token representing ownership. The token could change hands while the underlying card remains in storage, only moving when an owner chooses to redeem it for physical delivery.The…
Cointelegraph is committed to providing independent, high-quality journalism across the crypto, blockchain, AI, and fintech industries.All news, reviews, and analyses are produced with full journalistic independence and integrity. For more details on our standards and processes, please read our Editorial Policy. Read the full article here
AI & Crypto
Read MorePolitics
Don't Miss!
Opinions & Debates
The story of Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor who has just resigned amid a scandal involving plagiarism, fabulism, and résumé-padding, has rattled a number of skeletons in Western academia’s closet. In 2023, Arday became the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge when he was appointed professor in the sociology of education at the age of 37. Arday had obtained his PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in 2015. The son of immigrants from Ghana who lived on a Clapham council estate, he claimed to have overcome autism and other disabilities that left him unable to read or write…
Latest News
In brief An attacker drained $8.07 million from Coinsbuy wallets across Tron and Ethereum on August 9. About $6.34 million of the stolen funds…
Miami, August 10, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit against investigative journalist Jeff Stein, editor of the SpyTalk podcast and…
In brief XRP continues to underperform the rest of the crypto market. The price of XRP is still stuck in a formation traders call…
Imagine if McDonald’s could use trademark law to control how you use the term “fast food.” Or if the Canadian government could stop you…
In Goethe’s poem Der Zauberlehrling, an apprentice, left alone in his master’s workshop, decides to try his hand at the magic he has only…
NUVA launched this week with nearly $19 billion in tokenized real-world assets from Figure Technologies, aiming to bring regulated U.S. yield products into DeFi.…
A coalition of privacy and internet freedom advocates led by the Tor Project has announced a new crypto funding campaign to support censorship-resistant digital…
In brief Google introduced Gemini Omni at I/O 2026 as a multimodal AI model designed to generate video and other media from nearly any…
from the more-bullshit-than-the-bullshit-artists-can-handle dept As convenient as it is for cops to play along with hysterical claims made by politicians, sometimes a politician goes…
In every state and in the federal criminal justice system, when a crime victim is killed, the law allows a family member or other…
Donald Trump’s executive order asks the Fed to review how depository institutions may be granted access to payment services, an area the crypto industry…
In brief Nearly a decade after its founding and raising $100 million, Prometheum has officially executed its first crypto trades. Co-CEO Aaron Kaplan argues…